The Latest Breaking News from DUP

It emerges amid warnings of a multi-million-pound "black hole" in Stormont's finances as the UK government moves to set a budget

The NI Secretary said his budget was required to bring bring public finances in NI under control.

Conor Murphy MLA said the collapse of Stormont had left departments struggling to control spending.

Stephen Farry was reacting after Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris set a budget in the absence of a Stormont Executive.

The Northern Ireland Secretary said he has acted to protect the education and health budgets ‘as much as I can’.

Departments have been operating without proper budgets for months

Dame Arlene Foster, who left Stormont politics last year after resigning as leader of the DUP, takes the title Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee.

Speaking in Belfast Michael Russell called the court decision that Scotland cannot legislate for a referendum “the elephant in the room”

The Ulster Hall audience heard that Protestants within civic unionism are open to change

DUP MLA expresses 'alarm' at move but Sinn Fein MLA 'delighted'

Veteran Sudanese political and religious leader Mohamed Othman al-Mirghani arrived in Khartoum from Egypt on Monday, throwing his clout against a possible agreement between pro-democracy groups and the military. Mirghani has been based in Egypt for about a decade and his arrival follows military leaders and the former ruling Forces…